ReVisioning American History: an
intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx
and Peoples’ civil rights
with
Paul Ortiz, professor of history and
director of the Oral History Program at the University of Florida. He is the
author of Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and
White Violence from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920 and
An African American and Latinx
History of the United States
An epic, panoramic account of class struggles in the Western Hemisphere. At center
stage are the Black, and Latinx people who built the ‘new
world’
Spanning more hundreds of years, indigenous peoples history,
and the African American and Latinx history of the United States are
revolutionary. They are politically charged narratives arguing that the Global
South was crucial to the development of America as we know it. They challenge
the notion of westward progress, as exalted by widely taught formulations such
as “manifest destiny” and “Jacksonian democracy,” and show how placing African
American, and Latinx, voices unapologetically front and center transforms